Syn — Deity · Norse and Germanic

Overview

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Family

Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.

Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.

As the accounts tell it

The family as a list · 1

What this means

Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.

Does not imply shared parentage in every account · descent from the same generation in a single tree

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Connections

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

What this means

Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.

Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Sources

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

2 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
1 Hedged in the source The source said circa, allegedly or presumably. This does not turn that into a date.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

Keep exploring

The Æsir and Vanir as the Eddas tell them, and what the archaeology says instead.